Hi,
while doing some research for a talk on Perl secret operators, I tried
to find who first coined the term "secret operator".
I found a post from Greg Allen on February 2004 on this very list
(
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.fwp/msg/e62668a760de1652),
and then a post by Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc on January 2003
(
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/22cfcd81a1521ec4).
Does anyone know of an earlier occurence of the term?
Now that I have seen Abigail's post on clpm, I want to know its name.
It is the longest secret operator I've seen, and also the only one
that must be on three lines (not counting the content).
<
>
(commented out code and pod goes here)
m
;
I have a few ideas for names, but they don't fit very well, and do not
describe the "m\n;" part of the operator.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
